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PROBLEM/CONDITION: Each year, approximately 300,000 persons in the United States experience an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA); approximately 92% of persons who experience an OHCA event die. An OHCA is defined as cessation of cardiac mechanical...

"... a compilation of the working papers presented at the International Collaborative Effort (ICE) on Injury Statistics meeting held in Melbourne Australia, February 23, 1996. The meeting was held in conjunction with the Third World Injury Conference...

"Injuries are a substantial and preventable public health problem and account for approximately 6% of deaths in the United States. Many injury epidemiology and injury control programs depend on injury mortality and morbidity data aggregated by extern...